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Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia


I am one of the developers of the Censor Tracker add-on, which is listed on Mozilla’s add-on repository. We recently noticed that our add-on is now unavailable in Russia, despite being developed specifically to circumvent censorship in Russia. We have not changed any visibility settings, nor have we received any emails regarding this action. Our Russian users now see this message when they visit the page of Censor Tracker: That page is not available in your region The page you tried to acce...

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